Capture Your World, Share Your Vision
Capture special moments and portraits to remember and share. Thanks to stunning image quality and speed based on technology developed for Sony full-frame models, you can leave the hard work to the camera. The α6100 ensures you'll never miss an instant.
Persistent Tracking at High Speed
Real-time Tracking: Follow Your Subject with Reliable Precision
Keeping active subjects in constant, steady focus is absolutely vital to capturing every important moment, whether you're covering a sporting event or documenting everyday life. Sony's sophisticated AI-based[11] subject-tracking algorithms won't let you down, processing massive volumes of spatial data at high speed and in real time.
Real-time Eye AF for Human
Real-time Eye AF provides continuous eye tracking when shooting portraits in motion. You can prioritise either the left or the right eye, and it works even when the face is partially hidden, backlit or facing downwards.
Autofocus You can Rely on: Wide AF Area, Super-fast Acquisition Speed and Persistent Tracking
The camera's wide AF coverage is based on dense arrays of 425 phase-detection points and 425 contrast-detection points, for greatly increased detection accuracy. Fast performance from the latest-generation processing engine helps achieve a remarkable 0.02-second[13] AF acquisition speed, while advanced algorithms work to predict your subject's future location.
- [1] Phase-detection AF coverage (425 points)
- [2] Contrast-detection AF coverage (425 points)
Fast continuous Shooting at Up to 11 Frames Per Second, with AF/AE
Impressively speedy internal processing and the high-capacity buffer memory mean you can fire off continuous shots at up to 11fps[14] with after-view or 8fps[14] for real-time preview, with minimal display lag. You can take around 77 shots[15] in JPEG (Standard) format in one continuous burst.
Silent Continuous Shooting at Up to 8fps
Silent shooting is helpful in situations where noise would be distracting, such as at live performances or when taking animal portraits. The α6100 can shoot continuously without shutter noise at up to 8fps[16] with AF/AE tracking, even in AF-C mode, and with Real-time Eye AF or with Real-time Tracking.
Uncompromising Image Quality
Superior Image Resolution and Natural-looking Textures
The APS-C sensor uses copper wiring for better conductivity and enhanced circuit processing to help optimise light-collection efficiency. In conjunction with the latest-generation image processing engine, this enables better image resolution and natural-looking textures.
Cleaner Images in Dimly Lit Settings
Improved noise suppression produces cleaner images in dark settings where high-sensitivity shooting is required. The native ISO sensitivity reaches a maximum ISO 32000, with expanded ISO sensitivity up to ISO 51200 for stills. Noise reduction is particularly effective in the frequently used medium-to-high sensitivity range.
Realistic Colour Reproduction
Natural-looking images with improved colour reproduction better match what you see in real life, with more vibrant colours of flowers and similar objects as well as suppression of jaggies and false colours.
Expressive Movie-making for Anyone
Fast Hybrid AF for Movies: Phase-detection AF and Contrast-detection AF Working Together
Fast Hybrid AF brings high speed, accuracy and tracking performance to meet the stringent autofocus demands of 4K movies. More effective use of the focal plane phase-detection system enables more stable AF, while the contrast-detection AF system contributes to overall accuracy. Smooth, steady focus is maintained even when an object crosses in front of your subject.
High-resolution 4K Movie Recording
Full pixel readout, with no pixel binning, processes approximately 2.4 times[17] as much information as is required for 4K (QFHD: 3840 x 2160) recording[18], to produce movies with extraordinary detail, depth and realism.
Touch Tracking for Movies
The camera's Touch Tracking feature provides smooth, continuous focus tracking of your subject, and it can be activated with a simple touch of the display screen.
Expand Your Movie-making Options
The camera can directly record movies in slow motion (up to 5x) and quick motion (up to 60x), without the need for PC post-processing.
External Mic Input for High-quality Audio
The α6100 is equipped with an external microphone jack, giving you greater options for audio, to suit serious movie shooting and high-quality vlogging.
Choose Your Own Shooting Style
Self-framing Made Easy
It's easy to frame yourself for vlog recording and selfie shots thanks to the camera's LCD monitor, which tilts upward through a full 180 degrees.
Flexible Low-angle Shooting
The monitor tilts upward by 180° and downward by 74°, letting you more easily frame up your subject when shooting from low or high angles.
Convenient Touch Tracking and Touch Focus Features
Once you have set Touch Tracking in the menu you can select your subject simply by touching the monitor. Whether you're taking stills or movies, the camera will begin auto-tracking. The Touch Focus feature is also simple to use – just touch the appropriate point on the monitor to set the focus.
Flexible, Personalised Control Settings
Customisable Controls for Your Convenience
You can set up your α6100 for maximum convenience by assigning up to eight of its keys and controls to any of 89 different shooting and playback operations.
My Menu Feature for Quick Access
The camera's My Menu feature lets you register up to 30 different menu items for quick access to operations that you use often.
User-interface Customisation
The custom settings screen illustrates the position of camera control keys and buttons, so you can confirm function assignments at a glance. Also, you can view function menu options while you're customising the function menu, for easier setup.
Imaging Edge Desktop Applications
Elevate your photography with the Imaging Edge desktop applications[38]. Use "Remote" to control and monitor live shooting from your PC screen; "Viewer" to quickly preview, rate, and select photos from large image libraries; and "Edit" to develop RAW data into high-quality photos for delivery. Get the best from Sony RAW files, and manage your productions more efficiently[39].
With its extraordinary AF speed and performance, and persistent subject tracking, the α6100 skillfully handles the mechanics of photography so that you'll be free to concentrate on more creative aspects. It captures split-second action and delivers beautiful images even in difficult settings, for stunning still shots and high-resolution 4K movies[18].
Unparalleled AF Performance for Breathtaking Shots
Fast, accurate autofocus captures fleeting moments in stunning detail, thanks to a combination of innovative technologies. A total of 425 phase-detection AF points work in conjunction with contrast-detection AF to achieve a remarkable 0.02-sec.[23] acquisition speed, while High-density AF Tracking Technology reliably follows even erratically moving subjects.
Real-time Tracking Maintains Steady Focus on Your Subject
When you're tracking a fast-moving subject, the camera's automatic motion tracker uses an AI subject recognition algorithm[24] that draws on colour, pattern (brightness), subject distance (depth) and face/eye information to recognise and maintain focus on your subject.
Reliable Real-time Eye AF for Better Portrait Shots
The camera's Real-time Eye AF system detects and autofocuses on the eyes of your subjects when you half-press the shutter, and you can even prioritise your subject's left or right eye. When AF-C is set it maintains a stable focus even when the face is partially hidden or backlit, or the subject is facing downwards.
Accurate Autofocus even in Dim Lighting
Highly accurate autofocus is possible even in dark settings, thanks to the camera's sophisticated AF algorithm. High AF sensitivity means reliable AF-S autofocus all the way down to EV -2[29].
Real-time Eye AF for Animal
Sony's innovative eye-detection algorithms have been adapted to animal[12] as well as human, to give you sharply focused pet portraits and beautiful wildlife shots.
The subject-recognition technology used in Real-time Eye AF has been adapted to support animal as well as human. When activated, it provides fast, precise, automatic detection and tracking of animals' eyes, for better pet portraits and wildlife shots[25].
High-speed Continuous Shooting with AF/AE Tracking
Capture every instant of fast-moving action with continuous shooting at up to 11fps[26], or 8fps[27] in silent-shutter mode, and for up to 77[28] frames. Display lag has been minimised so, even in the live-view mode, up to 8fps[26] can be precisely captured. Continuously shot images can conveniently be displayed in groups in playback mode.
Focus Magnifier for Finer Focus Adjustment in Both MF/AF Modes
When extra-accurate focus is called for, such as when you're taking macro shots, you can display a magnified view of the general area you want to focus on. You can then finely adjust the exact point of focus using the touchscreen or the focus point selector.
Versatile Touch Operations
The camera's LCD panel supports intuitive touch operations such as Touch Pad (to smoothly move the focus point), Touch Focus (to set the focus point), Touch Shutter (to release the shutter), and Touch Tracking (to activate Real-Time AF).
Easy Manual Focus with Clearly Visible Peaking
When you're using manual focus the camera will colour-highlight the most sharply focused section of the entire image area. Selectable high contrast peaking colours include blue, red, yellow and white, giving you clear visibility of in-focus areas when you're doing the delicate focusing required for macro or portrait shooting.
Stunning Image Quality, Low Noise and a Wide ISO Range
The camera has a wide sensitivity range of ISO 100-32000, expanded up to 51200 for stills. Even when you're shooting at high sensitivity in dim lighting, excellent low-noise performance ensures high-quality images. By applying noise reduction and sharpness processing selectively across the frame, Area-specific Noise Reduction and Detail Reproduction Technology contribute to fine reproduction of subject textures and shadow details.
An Innovative Image-processing System
The camera's APS-C size, 24.2-megapixel[30] Exmor CMOS sensor provides a wide sensitivity range and excellent low-noise performance. In conjunction with the latest-generation BIONZ X image processing engine, it delivers beautiful, high-resolution images with superior image clarity and texture reproduction.
Lifelike Skin Tones
The skin tone feature inherited from Sony latest, highly acclaimed full-frame cameras captures the natural beauty of human skin tones, helping you take portraits that look their best.
4K Movie Recording in High-bit-rate XAVC S Format
Super 35mm format, 4K movie recording with full pixel readout and no pixel binning allows oversampling of around 2.4x[31] the image information needed for 4K (QFHD: 3840 x 2160). By downscaling from the equivalent of 6K resolution, captured videos benefit from even more realism and depth. The high-bit-rate (up to 100Mbps for 4K 30p/24p) XAVC S[32] video codec ensures professional-quality images in a consumer-friendly format.
Creative Style and Picture Effect
With the camera's Creative Style feature you can choose settings like "Vivid" or "Portrait" to create a specific look for your photo, and fine-tune an image's exposure, contrast, colour saturation and sharpness. Picture Effect provides effects like "Partial Colour" and "Miniature" to add some creative flair to your shots.
14-bit RAW Output for Rich Tonal Gradation
True 14-bit RAW images are delivered via a high-performance LSI and the BIONZ X image processor. To retain the smoothest, most natural tonal gradations, all processing occurs at 16-bit, preventing any dithering or processing errors from being introduced into the final 14-bit RAW image output.
- [1] Image sensor
- [2] The latest high-speed front-end LSI
- [3] 16-bit Image processing
Sophisticated Capabilities for High-quality Movie-making
The α6100 is ready for videography workflows, with clean HDMI output, variable framerates, and proxy recording. In addition, a range of functions are included to enhance movie recording accuracy, such as the display of overlay markers or gridlines, zebra exposure metering, or ISO values when shooting with ISO Auto. It's also easy to extract still frames directly from your movies in playback mode.
Steady, Precise AF Tracking for Better Movies
Fast Hybrid AF provides high speed, accuracy and excellent tracking performance to meet the stringent autofocus demands of 4K movies. AF tracking sensitivity can be adjusted for either stable focus or responsive refocusing, depending on the nature of the scene, and Touch Tracking lets you initiate tracking of a moving subject simply by touching the LCD screen.
Slow and Quick Motion and High-speed 120fps Recording
Slow motion (at up to 5x) and quick motion (at up to 60x)[33] video can be produced in-camera, with no post-processing required, at up to Full HD resolution. Additionally, high bit-rate (up to 100Mbps) and high frame-rate (up to 120p) Full HD recordings can be used to create slow-motion movies in post-production.
180°-tiltable LCD Screen
The 3.0-type LCD monitor offers 921k-dot resolution for a clear view of what you're shooting. It's designed to tilt upward a full 180° and downward by 74° for easy framing of vlogs and selfies and more convenient low-angle and high-angle shooting.
Support for High-quality Mic and Audio Input
An external microphone can be attached directly via the camera's microphone jack, and you also have an option for line and 48V phantom powered input using the separately available XLR adaptor kit. This allows the connection of a wide range of high-end microphones for better audio in your movie recordings.
Interval Shooting for Time-lapse Movies
Interval Shooting with a set interval between 1 and 60 seconds is available within the camera, and the resulting still images can be edited into a time-lapse movie on a PC[34]. A simple variable-speed preview function allows you to see images on the camera showing how the finished movie will look.
Still-image Ratings and Deletion Protection
During playback mode, still images can be given ratings and protected from deletion. Both these functions can be accessed via pre-assigned custom keys.
Square Aspect Ratio Tailored for Social Media
In addition to 3:2 and 16:9 aspect (width-to-height) ratios, you can also select a 1:1 aspect ratio – ideal for sharing images on social media platforms. This means that you no longer need to hand-trim your images after shooting when you're planning to post them.
Custom Functions for Smoother Operation
Up to eight of the camera's keys and controls can be custom-assigned to any of 89 shooting and replay functions. The My Menu feature allows flexible assignment of 30 menu items, and the custom settings screen helps keep track of everything. Helpful guides for menu items are also available with a single button press on the menu screen.
One-touch Remote, One-touch Sharing, Location Information
The One-touch remote feature lets you use your mobile device as a viewfinder and remote control. One-touch sharing allows you to transfer photos and videos to a mobile device for social media sharing. The camera can also use your mobile phone's location data via Bluetooth to geo-tag your images[36]. (These mobile device functions are available via Sony's Imaging Edge Mobile app[37].)
Simple Control Over White-balance Settings
Custom setting of white balance is simple to adjust, and you can select an AWB priority setting when shooting with incandescent lighting – either warmer Atmosphere Priority, or White Priority for purer whites.
Versatile Flash Functions
When shooting with compatible wireless flash units, rear-curtain sync[35] and slow sync can be selected – part of the camera's range of creative options for lighting.
Notes:
11. The RRP is Sony's recommended retail price; the actual retail price is determined by the retailer/seller and not by Sony.
12. With Adaptor (optional)
13. Wi-Fi does not work.
14. With compatible Sony external flash
15. With compatible external flash
16. Varies according to shooting conditions or memory card used
17. In the case of this model, when using Continuous Shooting (Hi+) in Drive mode
18. Supports Micro USB compatible device.
19. (Configuration method/Access method) WPS or manually /infrastructure mode. When connecting to smartphones, the camera can always work as a base without a wireless access point. (Security: WEP/WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK)
20. Sony accessories for the Accessory Shoe can be attached.
21. The LCD screen is turned on, shot once every 30 seconds, operate zoom alternately between W and T ends, flash strobe once every two times, turn power off and on once every ten times.
22. Indication recording time, which is defined by repeating the cycle: Power on, start recording, zoom , stand-by and power off.
23. Based on Sony research, CIPA-guideline-compliant internal measurement with an E 18-135mm F3.5-5.6 OSS lens mounted, Pre-AF off and viewfinder in use.
24. AI (artificial intelligence) including machine learning technology is used.
25. Still images only. Does not work with all types of animal. Tracking and right/left eye selection are not available.
26. Up to 11fps in continuous “Hi+” mode and up to 8fps in continuous “Hi” mode. Maximum fps will depend on camera settings.
27. Maximum fps will depend on camera settings. Some distortion may occur with fast-moving subjects or if the camera is moved sideways rapidly while shooting.
28. With "Hi+" continuous shooting mode. Sony internal measurement.
29. At ISO 100 equivalent, F2.0 lens.
30. Approx. effective.
31. 24p recording. Approx. 1.6 times for 30p recording.
32. A Class 10 or higher SDHC/SDXC card is required for XAVC S format movie recording. A UHS-I (U3) SDHC/SDXC card is required for 100Mbps.
33. Under Sony internal test conditions, using electronic front shutter.
34. Wi-Fi does not work during Interval Shooting
35. Rear curtain sync is not available with optical wireless flash units.
36. Can be connected via Bluetooth with smartphones featuring (as of the date of release): Android (Android 6.0 or later, Bluetooth 4.0 or later), iOS (iOS 11.4 or later, Bluetooth 4.0 or later).
37. The most recent version is required.
38. Refer to the download page for details: http://www.sony.net/disoft/d/
39. Does not support full functional compatibility with some of the camera models. See Sony support site for details.
40. Features and specifications are subject to change without prior notice.
41. For information about the external power supply bundled with the product (when applicable), please refer to the link regarding information on ecodesign requirements for external power supplies in accordance with the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2019/1782 of 1 October 2019 laying down ecodesign requirements for external power supplies pursuant to Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 278/2009 https://www.sony.ie/electronics/eco/environmental-management
42. The Bluetooth® word mark and logos are registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by Sony Group Corporation and its subsidiaries is under license.
43. Click the link below to check if your Sony product and/or related service is subject to the EU Data Act.
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What's in the Box:
- Rechargeable battery NP-FW50
- Shoulder strap
- Eyepiece cup
- Micro USB cable
- Lens cap
- SELP16502
- Battery charger BC-TRW
Product Features:
- Sony E-mount lenses
- 14bit RAW
- Location information link from smartphone
- Priority set in AWB
- Exmor CMOS sensor
- AF illuminator
- phase-detection
- Metering type: 1200-zone evaluative metering
- Metering mode: Multi-segment, Center-weighted, Spot
- Focus magnifier
- Self-portrait
- Self-timer
- Electronic front curtain shutter
- Built-in flash
- Pre-flash TTL
- FE level lock
- Bluetooth
